St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-17
REGULAR ARMY NOTES.

Mrs. ]. W. Griffin, of Minneapolis. was on
! Saturday a guest Of Mrs. W. Fish, at Fort
Smelling.
The leave of absence granted Second Lieut..
Laurence d. Tyson, Ninth infantry,is extended
! two months.
The extension Of leave OF absence granted
Second Lieut.. c. c. Miner is further extended
| two months.
a furloush of four months will be given to
Private Henry Witner company A. Sixth iu-
fantry. to take effect March l.
First Lieut.. William L. Pitcher. Eighth
| infantry, is detailed as amember of the gen.
eral court convened at New York.
! A furlou-h Of four months will be given to
Sergt. Henry Ether, company q, Second in
| fantry, TO take effect on re-enlistment.
Maj. William P. Chanbliss. late of the
Fourth cavalry, has been reinstated III rank
and placed on the retired list of the army.
Capt. William Il. Forwood, surgeon, having
reported at the st. Paul headquarters, will
proceed to Fort Meade to go on duty at that
post.
Lieut.. G. P. Ahern, Twenty-ffth infantry,
has leave of alb 3 nee of a week. which he
will spend in st. Paul as the guest Of Mr..
Peet.
Corporal James Nugent, Company B, bat
| talon of engineers, ia, upon his own appl-
cation. placed upon the retired list OF the
army.
The officers of the garrison VIII give a hop
during the week 10 a party OF young ladies
arriving to-day from st. Louis to participate
in the carnival.
Capt. Stephen W. Groesbeck, United States
army, judge advocate Of the department. has
returned from three weeks visit East and
resumed his duties.
With the approval of the secretary of war.
! leave of absence of ten months, with per-
mission to go beyond the sea. is granted Capt
Egbert B. Savage, Eighth infantry.
On his own application First Lieut. Henry
L. Harris, First artillery, is transferred from
Battery NJ to Battery /, vice First Lieut.
John P. Wiser, from Battery 10 Battery NJ
! By authority of the secretary of war Col
| Gaines Lawson. Twenty-fifth infantry sta
toned at Fort Smelling. is admitted to the
army and navy general hospital at Hot
! Springs, Ark.
! Col. Charles E. Blunt, corps of engineers.
| having served more than forty years as an
! officer OF the army, is at his own request and
! by direction of the president retired from
| active service.
The commanding officer at Fort Missoula
will give a furlough OF three months
| TO Private Henry +. Sioddard. COM
pan B. Third infantry. with permission to
| go to New York.
! The commanding officer at Fort Pembina
| will send Private John Fardy, Company l.
Twentieth infantry, to Fort Smelling to ap-
pear before the court OF which Capt. Bent
/
On the mutual application of the officers
| concerned, the following transfers are made
| in the Fifth infantry: First Lieut.. Samuel
/ w. Miller, from Company E to Company G,
| changing with First Lieut.. Thomas NJ De-
| frees.
| Hospital Steward John j. Swan will be re-
| lieved from duty in the department of the
! Columbia and viii proceed to Fort Douglass
| reporting by letter TO the commanding gen.
| eral department of the Platte for station.
| Hospital Steward Walter S. Haines, now at
Fort Douglass. will go to New York city.
The following officers registered at depart
| ment headquarters: Lieut.. William II. c.
| Bowen, Fifth Infantry, from Fort Totten
| going on a months leave; Lieut.. J. B. Ale
shire, First cavalry, returning from a leave
| of three months to his post at Fort Custer;
| Lieut.. Leon s. ROudiez Fifteenth infantry
! from Fort Pembina, going on month S
| leave
| Gen. Absalom Baird. inspector general
| United States army, will proceed to Fort Du-
| Chesne, Utah, under special instructions from
! the lieutenant general of the army, and upon
| completion of the duty will return 10 his
station in Washington. 1t is understood that
| the inspector general is charged with investi-
| eating the cases of officers connected with
| the court-martial now ordered for that post.
The ladies of the Fort garrison have formed
a musical and literary club, which will meet
once each week at the various quarters dur
| ing the winter. Among the members may be
| named Mesd mes G. L. Andrews. DR.. Alden,
J. J. Van Horn, E. J. Stivers, Miss Lincoln.
| Mesdames Walter Howe. C. L. Hodges. Peter
Leary, George Andrews Wilston Fish, Miss
| Alden, Mesdames Frost, E. F. Glenn, Misses
| Battles and Lanctot.
A general court-martial viii meet at Wash
! ington on the 18th inst. and will consist of
! the following members: Col. Horatio G. Glib
son, Capt John 6. TurnbuI Capt. james NJ.
Lancaster. Capt Lewis Smith Capt. James
| Chester, Capt. Frank W. Hess, Capt. John H.
| Mount First Lieuts. Ramsey D. Potts and
! Sedgwick Pratt, with First Lieut. Constantine
| Chase as Judge advocate. All of these officers
! Of tla hirda rfil